The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Author: Lynne Ann DeSpelder | Language: English | ISBN:
0073532010 | Format: PDF
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Description
The best-selling textbook in its field, The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth edition has been updated to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies.
- Hardcover: 704 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 9 edition (October 14, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0073532010
- ISBN-13: 978-0073532011
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I began using this book for a class on death and dying when it was in its third edition. I wrote a very favorable review here at that time. I stopped using this book at the seventh edition. I just purchased the ninth edition, hoping to be pleasantly surprised by new insights and information. I was disappointed. The price has gone up dramatically, I would say unjustifiably, yet the content is remarkably similar to that third edition. I have kept several editions over the years,for comparison, and the changes and updates have been mostly cosmetic. The authors, or the publisher, have taken their early success with this text for granted. Now they are milking it for residuals. It's a shame, it was ahead of its time when it came out. Now it is just barely visible in the light of its faded glory. There are better, and less expensive texts on the market.
By John Colatch
This text book is so well written that I could read it for fun! I had to read it for a college class, but I looked forward to reading it because it wasn't too "textbooky". It covers a wide range of topics from death in the lives of children to suicide to hospice care. It even covers the stuff that is too "taboo" for some people and questions that most people wouldn't want to ask. Great read and I will keep this book to refer to during my lifetime.
By scupp
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